Captain Sisko and his crew crashland on a planet after their ship is damaged on a covert mission behind enemy lines. They manage to overcome a band of Jem'Hadar who are also on the planet, thanks to their Vorta leader betraying them.6

Starfleet launches an operation to recapture Deep Space Nine. Captain Sisko leads a large Federation force, but this is bogged down battling a Dominion fleet. The Defiant breaks through and reaches Deep Space Nine just as the minefield is destroyed; Sisko convinces the Prophets to prevent Dominion reinforcements from coming through the wormhole. A joint Federation/Klingon force recaptures the station.11

The Mirror Universe version of Vedek Bareil arrives on DS9, intending to steal the Bajoran Orb of Prophecy and Change. He ultimately decides not to steal the Orb, and returns tot he Mirror Universe empty handed.16

Quark's mother, Ishka is captured by the Dominion. He assembles a team and is able to successfully rescue Ishka and capture the Vorta agent, Yelgrun. The Vorta prisoner Keevan is killed during the mission.19

Morn is apparently killed in an ion storm. He proves to have been involved in the infamous Lissepian Mother's Day heist, faking his own death after absconding with all the profits from the robbery. Although his criminal partners attempt to find and steal the profits from teh venture, they are all arrested and Morn escapes with the money.22

Voyager's EMH relays messages from the ship to Starfleet via an alien communications array. A message to Janeway informs her that her fiance Mark Johnson has married a co-worker. Voyager finds that the Maquis have been wiped out.26

Worf and Dax are sent to retrieve a Federation intelligence agent working in on the planet Soukara, in Cardassian space. During the mission Dax is injured, and Worf chooses to abandon the mission and return her to the station for medical treatment. As a result the agent they were sent to rescue is killed. A permanent note is entered on Word's service record.28

Voyager rescues a critically ill Hirogen hunter who wishes to finish his hunt against a member of Species 8472. Seven of Nine assist the Hirogen in capturing his pey, against Captain Janewway's orders.30

The USS Voyager is captured by the Hirogen. They force the crew to create large holodecks abouard the ship, where the crew must re-enact various violent episodes from history - and attempt to substitute holographic violence for the Hirogen's traditional hunting culture.33

The Voyager crew are able to escape from Hirogen control and recapture the ship from the Hirogen. In the aftermath, Captain Janeway gives the Hirogen holographic technology in hopes that they can fulfil their obsession with hunting using holograms rather than live prey.34

An archeological dig on Bajor uncovers a tablet which describes an event called "The Reckoning", a battle between the Prophets and the Pah Wraiths. The battle subsequently takes place on Deep Space Nine, but is interrupted by Kai Winn.39

Jake Sisko and Cadet Nog are travelling in the Runabout Shenandoah when a Dominion warship attacks. They are saved and picked up by the USS Valiant, a Defiant class ship which has been fighting behind enemy lines since the outbreak fo the Dominion war. The Valiant, which is crewed by a Cadet squad, is subsequently destroyed attacking a new Dominion battleship. Jake and Nog are able to escape the ship in the final moments before its destruction.41

Voyager passes through a region of space inhabited by the Kyrian and Vaskan species, two races which are engaging in an armed conflict. Voyager is tnagentially involved, but quickly leaves the area. In the centuries to come the Kyrians will come to blame Voyager and the Vaskans for beginning the conflict. Their history depicts Voyager as a heavily armed warship crewed by sadists and murderers. A copy of Voyager's EMH program which was left behind will help them acquire a more accurate view of history.42

Grand Nagus Zek is deposed for allowing women to wear clothes and make a profit, throwing the Ferengi alliance into chaos. Quark must impersonate his own mother in order to help the Nagus regain power.44

The Defiant picks up a distress call from a Starfleet officer, Lisa Cusak, marooned on a barely-habitable planet. The ship rushes to the rescue, but on arrival finds that they have been receiving signals through a time distortion, and Cusak has been dead for three years and two months.47

Voyager encounters Arturis, an alien with a gift for languages. He offers to translate the scrambled message Voyager recieved from Starfleet via the Hirogen array. The message reports the location of a new Starfleet vessel with a "slipstream" drive which has been sent on autopilot to the Delta Quadrant. With this USS Dauntless, Voyager's crew can get back home within a few months. However, the ship proves to be a trap created by Arturis, intended to deliver Voyager's crew to the Borg - revenge for the assimilation of Arturis's people by the Borg after Janeway helped them in their war with Species 8472.48

Jadzia Dax is killed by Gul Dukat, who seals the entrance to the Wormhole. The Dax symbiont develops life-threatening complications whilst on its way home to Trill; to save its life it is transplanted into the only available host, Ezri Teegan.49